Every IT Job Explained in 10 Minutes (Helpdesk to Cloud Architect)

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00:00 — Why IT job titles are confusing (and why this video exists)
00:48 — Help Desk / Tier 1: the real frontline of IT
02:03 — Tier 2 / System Administrator: where “real IT” starts
03:55 — Systems Engineer: building and improving environments
04:44 — Infrastructure / Datacenter roles (what on-prem actually teaches you)
05:24 — Career branching begins: networking, security, cloud
05:25 — Network Engineer: traffic, firewalls, and reliability
05:59 — Security roles: identity, MFA, monitoring, and risk
06:46 — Cloud Engineer: doing everything… just abstracted
07:27 — DevOps / Platform Engineer: automation + developer experience
07:50 — Architect: designing systems and reducing complexity
08:15 — Final takeaway: IT careers aren’t ladders — they’re paths

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